Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli 37

Everyone is beginner when the field is new, and there is value in tutorials written by beginners.

For example, Ciro Santilli felt it shocking how direct and satisfying Richard Feynman's scientific vulgarization of quantum electrodynamics were, e.g. at: Richard Feynman Quantum Electrodynamics Lecture at University of Auckland (1979), and that if he had just assumed minimal knowledge of mathematics, he was about to give a full satisfactory picture in just a few hours.

Other supporters of this:

This notation is not so common in basic mathematics, but it is so incredibly convenient, especially with Einstein notation as shown at Section "Einstein notation for partial derivatives":

This notation is similar to partial label partial derivative notation, but it uses indices instead of labels such as $x$, $y$, etc.

That's what usually fucks up parallel programs.

The steps are sorted in roughly chronological order. The project might fail at any point, and some steps may be carried in parallel:

Ciro decided to start with a decent markup language with a decent implementation: OurBigBook Markup. Once that gets reasonable, he will move on to another attempt at the website itself.

The project description was originally at: github.com/cirosantilli/write-free-science-books-to-get-famous-website but being migrated here. The original working project name was "Write free books to get famous website", until Ciro decided to settle for OurBigBook.com and fixed the domain name.

Used for example in FreeFem and FEniCS Project as the input description of the PDEs, TODO why.

Ciro Santilli finds it interesting that radioactive decay basically kickstarted the domain of nuclear physics by essentially providing a natural particle accelerator from a chunk of radioactive element.

The discovery process was particularly interesting, including Henri Becquerel's luck while observing phosphorescence, and Marie Curie's observation that the uranium ore were more radioactive than pure uranium, and must therefore contain other even more radioactive substances, which lead to the discovery of polonium (half-life 138 days) and radium (half-life 1600 years).

Some views:

Linear combination of a Dirichlet boundary condition and Neumann boundary condition at each point of the boundary.

Examples:

Forms a normal subgroup of the general linear group.

A matrix that equals its transpose:

Can represent a symmetric bilinear form as shown at matrix representation of a symmetric bilinear form, or a quadratic form.

Subcase of symmetric multilinear map:

Requires the two inputs $x$ and $y$ to be in the same vector space of course.

The most important example is the dot product, which is also a positive definite symmetric bilinear form.